Bob Rae: Why I left the Left behind, An Excerpt From His New Book
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I spent 20 years of my life as a member of the New Democratic Party, and was elected eight times to federal and provincial parliament as an NDP member. Why did I leave the NDP to join the Liberals?
Simply put, after lengthy personal experience, I concluded that the federal NDP and its Ontario counterpart are wedded to a culture of opposition and protest. They have great difficulty embracing the lessons of the postwar world about the relationship between markets, society and government. Determined to be in Canada what one of their leaders described as the "last, best, left," the New Democrats are confining themselves to an ever-smaller universe. They are ignoring obvious lessons of history, solid research, and the example of other left-leaning parties elsewhere, such as "new Labour" in Britain.
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